In the Ross Family Theatre at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center

The launch of International Classical Music Enterprise–STL with an inaugural concert that wraps you in a warm and cosmic embrace, from Mozart’s enthralling “Kegelstatt” Trio and Tchaikovsky’s iconic The Nutcracker in a concert suite for solo piano curated and transcribed by Mikhail Pletnev. ICME–STL founder Michael Lu will premiere his own transcription for solo piano of Florence Price’s Night, a song based on a poem by Louise C. Wallace where the nightfall, personified as a Madonna in blue, rests like a dreamy, carefree child beneath the moon’s glowing silver light.

Artists: Diana Cohen, John Bruce Yeh, Roman Rabinovich, Michael Lu

Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) - Trio in E-flat major, K. 498 “Kegelstatt”
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) - Märchenerzählungen, Op. 132
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) - Pavane pour une infante défunte
Arseny Gusev (b. 1998) - In Search of the Lost Voice (2024; Missouri premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) / Mikhail Pletnev (b. 1957) - Concert Suite from The Nutcracker
Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979) - Cortège
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) / Alfred Cortot (1877–1962) - Heidenröslein, D. 257 (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Florence Price (1887–1953) / Michael Lu (b. 1999) - Night (text: Louise C. Wallace)
Ned Rorem (1923–2022) - Piano Sonata No. 2

Program and order subject to change. Approximate running time: 1h 35min (with intermission).